- Added initial feature flag state verification before tests to ensure a stable starting point.
- Implemented retry logic with exponential backoff for toggling feature flags, improving resilience against transient failures.
- Introduced `waitForFeatureFlagPropagation` utility to replace hard-coded waits with condition-based verification for feature flag states.
- Added advanced test scenarios for handling concurrent toggle operations and retrying on network failures.
- Updated existing tests to utilize the new retry and propagation utilities for better reliability and maintainability.
Resolved timing issues in DNS provider type selection E2E tests
(Manual, Webhook, RFC2136, Script) caused by React re-render delays
with conditional rendering.
Changes:
- Simplified field wait strategy in tests/dns-provider-types.spec.ts
- Removed intermediate credentials-section wait
- Use direct visibility check for provider-specific fields
- Reduced timeout from 10s to 5s (sufficient for 2x safety margin)
Technical Details:
- Root cause: Tests attempted to find fields before React completed
state update cycle (setState → re-render → conditional eval)
- Firefox SpiderMonkey 2x slower than Chromium V8 (30-50ms vs 10-20ms)
- Solution confirms full React cycle by waiting for actual target field
Results:
- 544/602 E2E tests passing (90%)
- All DNS provider tests verified on Chromium
- Backend coverage: 85.2% (meets ≥85% threshold)
- TypeScript compilation clean
- Zero ESLint errors introduced
Documentation:
- Updated CHANGELOG.md with fix entry
- Created docs/reports/e2e_fix_v2_qa_report.md (detailed)
- Created docs/reports/e2e_fix_v2_summary.md (quick reference)
- Created docs/security/advisory_2026-02-01_base_image_cves.md (7 HIGH CVEs)
Related: PR #583, CI run https://github.com/Wikid82/Charon/actions/runs/21558579945
- Added cleanup functions to close database connections in various test setups to prevent resource leaks.
- Introduced new helper functions for creating test services with proper cleanup.
- Updated multiple test cases to utilize the new helper functions for better maintainability and readability.
- Improved error handling in tests to ensure proper assertions and resource management.
- Print cache contents and Playwright CLI version for diagnostics
- Search for expected browser executables and force reinstall with --force if absent
- Add headless-launch verification via Node to fail fast with clear logs
- Add step to delete ~/.cache/ms-playwright before installing browsers
- Guarantees correct browser version for each run
- Prevents mismatched or missing browser binaries (chromium_headless_shell-1208, etc.)
- Should resolve browser not found errors for all browsers
- Removed restore-keys fallback from Playwright cache
- Only exact cache matches (same package-lock.json hash) are used
- This prevents restoring incompatible browser versions when Playwright updates
- Added cache-hit check to skip install when cache is valid
- Firefox and WebKit were failing because old cache was restored but browsers were incompatible
Job names now show: 'E2E chromium (Shard 1/4)' instead of 'E2E Tests (Shard 1/4)'
Makes it easier to identify which browser/shard is passing or failing
- Artifact names now include browser: playwright-report-{browser}-shard-{N}
- Docker logs include browser: docker-logs-{browser}-shard-{N}
- Install step always runs (idempotent) to ensure version match
- Fixed artifact name conflicts when 3 browsers share same shard number
- Updated summary and PR comment to reflect new naming
- Introduced a new wrapper function for query client to facilitate testing.
- Added comprehensive tests for upload, commit, and cancel operations.
- Improved error handling in tests to capture and assert error states.
- Enhanced session management and state reset functionality in tests.
- Implemented polling behavior tests for import status and preview queries.
- Ensured that upload previews are prioritized over status query previews.
- Validated cache invalidation and state management after commit and cancel actions.
The "Save Docker Image as Artifact" and "Upload Image Artifact" steps
were running even when skip_build=true, causing CI failures on Renovate
dependency update PRs.
Add skip_build check to artifact saving step condition
Add skip_build check to artifact upload step condition
Aligns artifact steps with existing build skip logic
Adds automated workflow that creates a PR from nightly → main every
Monday at 9:00 AM UTC for scheduled release promotion.
Features:
Pre-flight health check verifies critical workflows are passing
Skips PR creation if nightly has no new commits
Detects existing PRs and adds comments instead of duplicates
Labels PRs with 'automated' and 'weekly-promotion'
Creates GitHub issue on failure for visibility
Manual trigger via workflow_dispatch with reason input
NO auto-merge - requires human review and approval
This gives early-week visibility into nightly changes and prevents
Friday surprises from untested code reaching main.
- Updated Docker Compose files to use digest-pinned images for CI contexts.
- Enhanced Dockerfile to pin Go tool installations and verify external downloads with SHA256 checksums.
- Added Renovate configuration for tracking Go tool versions and digest updates.
- Introduced a new design document outlining the architecture and data flow for dependency tracking.
- Created tasks and requirements documentation to ensure compliance with the new digest pinning policy.
- Updated security documentation to reflect the new digest pinning policy and exceptions.
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